(06-02-2020, 10:13 AM)rfc17 Wrote:

(06-02-2020, 09:54 AM)Byron LeftTown Wrote: Black Harvard professor studies police violence against blacks and whites.
Blacks were 20% LESS LIKELY to be shot than whites

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/upsho...tings.html

Michigan St had a study last year that showed a similar thing.  Washington Post keeps track of police shootings and their data shows this. FBI crime stats show this. There are endless studies that show this.  

The real correlation with police shootings and killings is not race but rates of violent crime within a community. Numerous studies have proven this over and over again. And it makes obvious sense. But we have this narrative that black folks are getting gunned at disproportionate rates and cops only do this to black folks. And while this may have been true in the past, it has ceased being true for awhile.  For every bad police killing of a black person, I'll show you the same thing happening to a white person. Only difference is no one ever talks about the latter.

I have restrained from getting into a "my stat is bigger than your stat" battle on here, because, frankly, both sides of the argument naturally distrust the sources of the other. It turns into a pissing match that serves no purpose.

But, considering we have people on here who are so sure that statistics have "proved" police violence against black people to be a false narrative, I feel the need to at least post something (and there are many many more sources I could use here) that shows, absolutely, there is no proof of this. You can argue that some studies have shown this, others have shown that... But you simply can't say it has been proven.

https://journalistsresource.org/studies/...white-men/

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